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GOETHE AND BEETHOVEN-Remain Rolland-Harper...
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Ludwig van Beethoven were contemporaries, but it was long before they met, not long before they parted. In these four essays Remain Rolland, music-lover, Goethe expert, discussed in scholarly but readable fashion their queer relationship toward each other and toward the enthusiastic girl who tried to bring them together...
Says Author Bloch's great & good friend Romain Rolland, himself a famed novelist (Jean-Christophe): "I have known and loved him as a brother for 15 years . . . these stormy 15 years which have been the touchstone of souls and of friendships have only served to consecrate our mutual faith . . . within this virile artist who thinks as he writes, and who acts as he thinks, there is a character which is the equal...
...Game of Love and Death. Alice Brady chooses to meet the guillotine with her husband rather than accept his noble gift of passports which would have enabled her lover and herself to escape. With this verbose French revolution episode by Remain Rolland, the Theatre Guild's season continues to be disappointing...
...acid bandits": one Gleizes, a horse dealer, and one Aubes, a shopkeeper, accused of holding up the automobile of wealthy Mme. Holland, Albi businesswoman. Flinging vitriol in her face to blind her, they robbed her, left her in agony by the roadside. Into Albi's courtroom walked Mme. Rolland last week, the hideous burns on her face half-hidden by a bandage. "You thought that you would blind me!" she cried pointing an accusing finger at the "acid bandits" in the dock. "Thank God, I have still one eye left with which to weep-and to identify...